The opera, La boheme, is set in Paris in 1830, and reflects the birth of Bohemian culture, blending nostalgia and innovation, and brought to life with drama, music, voices and lovely instrumental contributions in harmony.

I saw Barry Humphries a couple of years ago at his last Farewell Tour. Naturally he’s back, but this is the real Barry Humphries, a culture-hungry Australian, who 70 years ago while still at school, came across a collection of sheet music published in Vienna in the 1920s, filled with European composers he had never heard of.